What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty was the second emperor after Qin Shi Huang to have outstanding achievements. His exploits are innumerable, such as: increasing government revenue in the salt and iron official camp, controlling the Yellow River to develop agriculture, promoting cultural, economic, and scientific and technological exchanges between the East and the West through the western region, strengthening the centralization of power through the Tuien Order, attacking the Xiongnu for thousands of miles in the north, and subjugating South Vietnam. He is not alone in doing so many far-reaching things, but it is indeed he who plays a decisive role. What did he rely on to do all this?
First, promote talents in an eclectic manner
Wei Qing was born poor and was a slave of his sister Princess Pingyang, who was promoted by him, showing military talent to be a general, and coordinating the overall situation to fight the Xiongnu. Huo went ill at the age of seventeen to become a general, directly took the court of the Xiongnu king, and the sealing of the wolf Juxu thus became the highest achievement of the warriors of the two-thousand-year feudal dynasty against foreign races. Sang Hongyang, the chancellor of the finances of the Liu Dynasty, was the lowest-ranking merchant at that time. Dongfang Shuo and his father were initially only jianghu warlocks and fallen scholars, and both of them were promoted by him to become officials in the court. Dong Zhongshu, Sima Qian, and Zhang Jian were all hand-picked by him. Regardless of the identity of the selection and use of talents, Liu Che was full of talents and accomplished many things.
Second, deal with the problem in a vacuum
The promulgation of the Tuien Order, the salt and iron official camp, the organization of a strong army to suppress the Xiongnu, the opening up of the Western Regions to exchange culture, the Huairou method to subdue South Vietnam and the Confucianism of Exclusive Respect, and so on. The resistance of each of these pieces has a resistance that is unimaginable to ordinary people. For example, at that time, from the local to the central government, there were officials advocating rule by the Huang Laopai, and the emperor and empress dowager of the dynasty were also huang laopai, and the Huang Laopai's rule of inaction was the national policy set by Han Gaozu to recuperate, the weakness of Confucianism's own strength, the resistance of the ideas of the people of the world, and the example of qin shi huang's idea of the solitary family at that time. Every reform requires great courage, extraordinary wisdom and far-sighted vision. Other emperors had difficulty doing one, but he did so much.
Third, the Imperial Mind Technique controls the overall situation
Wei Qing, Huo Zhiyi, Dong Zhongshu, Dou Bao, Sang Hongyang, Master Father Yan, and Dongfang Shuo, etc., were all first-class talents, all of whom had their own pride, careful thinking, and the interests and needs of the forces behind them, and Liu Che all settled down one by one and did not make a big mess, and also urged them to do what Liu Che commanded. From the south to the north, from the east to the west, the whole country is under his control, and it is impossible to form any party and rebel for personal gain. The Empress Dowager Dou's family was powerful, and she didn't have to lie down and obey. Those princes and kings who supported the army and respected themselves and had a vast territory did not dare to move on their stomachs. It can be seen that the strength of his imperial heart technique can be described as the pinnacle of perfection, which is rare among the emperors of previous dynasties.
Emperor Wudi of Han relied only on himself, he did everything he wanted to do when he was young, and he fulfilled the wishes of his fathers. Those glories that belong to him, no one can take away, that era belongs to him, and history proves everything.